Business of Medicine
Med Tech Report
Telehealth and medical liability
Is the “in-person” standard of care appropriate for telemedicine?
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Inside Mercy’s mission to care for non-COVID patients in Los Angeles
“We went into it with expectations of, ‘We’ll treat as many patients as you need us to take,” Commander Erin Blevins recalled.
Guidance for Practicing Primary Care
Guidance on infection prevention for health care personnel
Many clinicians have asked whether a physician should use a mask while seeing patients without COVID-19 in the office.
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Cost of preventable adult hospital stays topped $33 billion in 2017
Heart failure, diabetes, and COPD were the most expensive preventable conditions.
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Hashtag medicine: #ShareTheMicNowMed highlights Black female physicians on social media
The physician event will feature 10 teams of two, with one physician handing over her account to her black female counterpart for the day.
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Asthma leads spending on avoidable pediatric inpatient stays
Asthma costs nearly equaled potentially avoidable hospital bills for diabetes, gastroenteritis, and UTIs combined.
The Optimized Doctor
Examining bias
Most of us are unaware of our biases and falsely believe we are free of them.
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Daily Recap: FDA revokes emergency use of hydroxychloroquine; Hardest hit specialties ranked in financial report
Volunteer “street medics” -- nursing students, veterinarians, doctors, trauma surgeons, security guards, ski patrollers, nurses, wilderness EMTs,...
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It’s official: COVID-19 was bad for the health care business
Pediatric offices did better than most, in part by keeping the vaccines flowing.
Managing Your Practice
If you reopen it, will they come?
The big question, of course, is whether patients can be convinced that it is safe to leave their homes and come to your office.
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Racism joins COVID-19 at the primary care table
One-third of clinicians say that recent racism-related events have had a negative effect on their own well-being.